RESTON, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—November 17, 2008—
Bamboo Solutions, a leading provider of products that enhance Microsoft
SharePoint and TeamDirection, a premier provider of collaborative
project solutions, today announced an OEM agreement to expand their
Microsoft-based project management offerings for SharePoint. Available
today, TeamDirection is offering the Bamboo SharePoint Project Portfolio
Dashboard Web Part as part of its IntelliGantt Add-in for Microsoft
Project. This combined offering provides SharePoint customers who also
use Microsoft Project 2007 Standard or Professional an intuitive and
affordable project management solution for project managers, SharePoint
users and project stakeholders. Utilizing robust client tools, team
members can work in shared workspaces that are easily accessible and
convenient while stakeholders can view clear and concise progress
reports in a Portfolio Dashboard.

“We believe project management should be accessible to everyone, so we
created a collaborative solution that is quick to implement,
easy-to-use, and instantly connects the team - using shared work spaces
project oriented web parts and an intuitive, elegant interface,” said
John Milan, CEO, TeamDirection and Microsoft SharePoint MVP. “The
addition of Bamboo’s Project Portfolio Dashboard addresses the number
one request from our clients to be able to provide at-a-glance views of
project status for stakeholders and upper management.”

IntelliGantt products are designed for organizations that have outgrown
spreadsheets but do not need a full-fledged enterprise project
management solution. The IntelliGantt Add-In for Microsoft Project
enables SharePoint users to publish and synchronize project changes
outside of Microsoft Project. Team members can use SharePoint to update
and complete tasks assigned to them with a web browser or with Microsoft
Outlook 2007. With over 70 custom fields, users can choose what
information is published to SharePoint and how that information is
displayed. Project summaries can be reported directly to and from
SharePoint project lists or to Bamboo’s SharePoint Project Portfolio
Dashboard, for at-a-glance views of project status and milestones.

By adding Bamboo’s SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard, Project
Managers are able to take their project management one step further –
significantly reducing the time it takes to compile project data and
communicate status to stakeholders and upper management. It provides
users with a single view of the progress, health and risk level of
projects in a client’s entire project portfolio. Project Managers can
communicate the status, cost and budget for each project using a
configurable red/yellow/green indicator list, issues meter, bar or pie
chart and Gantt view widgets. Users can choose to use one or all of the
widgets to display project data in the dashboard, as well as customize
the layout for how the project data is displayed.

“We are excited to work with vendors such as TeamDirection who develop
smart solutions for small to medium size businesses,” said Michael
Tanner, CEO, Bamboo Solutions Corporation. “With TeamDirection, we
continue our mission of extending Microsoft’s SharePoint platform with
software that helps customers implement project management solutions
faster and at lower overall cost.”

Because it installs on the local desktop, the IntelliGantt Add-In for
Microsoft Project works with hosted SharePoint solutions and keeps track
of changes made offline, merging updates when users are back online. The
IntelliGantt Add-in for Microsoft Project with Bamboo’s SharePoint
Project Portfolio Dashboard works with both WSS 3.0, or MOSS 2007. To
learn more about Team Direction’s Intelligantt Add-In for Microsoft
Project, including Bamboo’s SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard visit
www.teamdirection.com.

Founded in 2002, TeamDirection has provided powerful and intuitive
project management solutions to 40,000+ people in 36 countries. With
successful installations ranging from small businesses to the Fortune
500 and government organizations, TeamDirection's software adheres to a
“project tools for everyone” philosophy, maximizing the productivity of
people and organizations with out-of-thebox simplicity. For additional
information call 1-206-418-6466 or visit TeamDirection’s website at
http://www.teamdirection.com.

Bamboo Solutions Corporation is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner that
provides a suite of Web Parts, Solution Accelerators and customized
products for Microsoft SharePoint-based project management, social
networking, business intelligence, portal administration and content
management. In the past three years, over 4,500 customers across 38
countries have benefited from Bamboo’s software development agility,
using Bamboo software to implement their SharePoint-based solutions in
record time. Customers can easily try, test and buy from the online
store and gain access to additional resources through Bamboo’s global
network of partners. Bamboo Solutions, a Microsoft Certified Gold
Partner, is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with offices in
Gothenburg, Sweden and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. For more information,
visit:
www.bamboosolutions.com.